⁴ Saul summoned the army and mustered them at Telaim; two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah. ⁵ Then Saul came up to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the wadi.^{[a] 6} Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you with them. You have shown loyal love to all the Israelites^[b] when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites left from among the Amalekites. ⁷ Then Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as one goes to Shur which is east of^[c] Egypt. ⁸ He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the edge^[d] of the sword. ⁹ However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second best of the young fatlings and all that was valuable;^[e] they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed.